How the Conservatives took the hearing of the Newsom-Calletats redistribution

From Alexey KossefCalmness

This story was originally published by CalmattersS Register about their ballots.

For some of the Republican voters who oppose Partisan plan for redistribution Moving quickly through the California Capitol this week, it felt like a divine meeting.

They arrived in Sacramento on Tuesday – thousands of them, by bus, from Visalia and Riverside and then – for a completely different mission. Pastor Jack Hibbs, an extremely online leader of the chapel of the Golgotha Chino Hils Megacherch, called his followers in Capitol to gather against a bill that would be Expand who can serve as a caregiver of the child when their parents are detained by immigration authorities.

However, it just so happened that the legislature also scheduled two hearing this morning to direct the controversial proposal of governor Gevin New, asking the voters to cancel the independent commission for the redistribution of the state and to approve new lines of congress, more favorable to the Democrats. And as the word spread to the flock, dozens of them overflowed in front of the commissions rooms, disappointed and tired conservatives, arranged for their valuable seconds to publicly deny another outrage directed at them by liberal leaders in California.

“They are about to have things too long,” says Judy Escobel, a 64-year-old Visalia teacher, as she came out of the hearing of the Assembly, where she told legislators that their “childhood” efforts to cancel the redistribution committee made her want to return to Texas. “We voted for this because we want to choose our politicians. We do not want our politicians to choose their constituents.”

The testimony to the Redistribution Plan was “Topping the Cake” for the Escobel, who came for the hits rally with his sisters. “Someone has to do something,” she said, “and I decided it should be me.”

Despite the heated opposition and Even legal threats by the California Republicans who could lose more than half of their other places In the congress, the democratic super mastery in the legislature is ready to approve the plan by the end of this week. Then Newsom would Call special elections for November 4When voters will have the last word on the new card.

A handful of supporters, most of them, related to organized work, have appeared on hearing to speak in favor of what is claimed to be a necessary step to prevent President Donald Trump from supporting the result of the average in 2026. Trump is pressured by the state of the whole country. Go at the House of US Representatives.

“We are at the moment when we have to respond to an existential threat,” said state -owned Sabrina Certintes, Democrat from the River, during the Senate hearing. “Do you expect the Californians to unilaterally disarm themselves when Trump’s Republicans carry out their control over state governments as a weapon against democracy?”

But they were very counted by the serial crowd of opponents, many of whom immediately departed from their chartered buses and in the public test line.

Republicans feel “unprecedented”

Some of them were reconciled that they would not stop what they seem to be increasing in recent weeks. NEWSOM has collected public support through appearances with democratic legislators who fled Texas To block such efforts for Gerimander there.

“I do not change the opinion of these people,” says David Bologist, a 55-year-old maintenance worker at the Los Angeles Water and Energy Division. From the coronavirus pandemic he travels to Capitol a week as a “civil lobby” for right groups such as Moms for Liberty.

“We are already feeling very unrelated,” Bologist said. He was in a scanty crowd outside the Senate hearing early in the morning. “Although you know you won’t stop it, you still have to say no.

Behind him, Maria Carilo entertained her children at the age of 7 and 5 years. They left Riverside at 1 in the morning to make the driving to Sacramento for the Hibbs rally. Carilo, a 36-year-old home school teacher, plans to turn his visit into Capitol into an excursion and for his children.

Like many Californians, Carilo who wore a shirt Call to protect men from the sports of girlsShe said she became politically active during the pandemic stops for stopping and compulsory vaccines. She wanted democratic leaders to hear from some of the millions of Trump’s voters, such as she supported the president’s agenda and will be despondent by the new congresses.

“I hope they listen to the real people who live in these communities and are affected by these policies,” she said.

Reporter Kevin Kili appears

The GOP contingent of El Dorado County huddled in an angle, watching the hearing, but hesitated to testify against a plan that they think it would be sure to be shaken.

“We all know this is a farce anyway,” said Todd White of El Dorado Hills, chairman of the club.

“The redistribution war is of no use to anyone,” says Doug Williams of South Lake Taho, the club’s deputy chairman. He said California is chasing Texas “to the bottom of the barrel.

The Democrats map relocates El Dorado County from a scattered rural neighborhood along the eastern border of California – represented by reporter Kevin Kili, Republican Rockelin – to a new place, which extends from the more liberal suburbs of Sacramento. Williams feared that the problems facing his mountain community as a willingness to fire and Reducing Home Insurancewill be ignored.

“This is meant to benefit only Soon launch a President campaignS White complained that the governor was using taxpayer money to hold special elections and “he has done everything for himself.”

“Why don’t you do your job?” Club Cashier Heather Masten said. After some discussion, she entered the hearing to give a brief comment in opposition.

Then the group wandered into the hearing of the Assembly to do it again.

“We’ll be here all day,” White said, “just suppressed by the majority.”

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